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Windows 7: External drive not working after format

Hi guys, I have a Buffalo HD-LB3 3TB external harddrive. My main goal is to get it to work with my xbox 360. I was able to get it to work on my blueray player but it is not found by my Xbox. I have formatted it to Fat32 and I have partitioned it into two pieces, 1.8 TB and 1.1 TB. Still nothing is working. Please help me, thank you for your time!

I am not sure, this is my first time doing any sort of formatting. Would you mind explaining how to check for bad sectors. I used EaseUS partition master to change in to Fat32 so im not entirely sure. Thank you for the speedy reply.

All i know is if you take a HDD out of an existing XBox and try to use it in a PC the drive has to be fixed so it works...
On that note i would think it has to be done in the reverse order for it to work properly...
Disclaimer: Never had an XBox...never will...just going on what i;ve read.

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